26. Why do you recommend changing the default for the Short Date in the Windows Regional Settings to a format that has a 4-digit year (YYYY)?
We recommend changing the Short Date format in Regional Settings (Windows Control Panel) to a four-digit year so that a "Short Format" year displayed by Windows is fully distinguished in terms of its century.
The formats that are specified in the Windows Regional Settings influence many software programs. Making a change in Regional Settings will help these programs to display four-digit years, thereby minimizing confusion about what century is intended for the dates that are used. For example, the formats in Windows Regional Settings for Short Date and Long Date are adopted by Excel 95 and 98, affecting the default way that Excel displays dates that are in Excel spreadsheets.
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